Nausea and/or vomiting is a sign that the stomach is imbalanced.

Vomiting is the stomach’s energy going the wrong way – up! But how you treat it depends on why the symptoms present?

Sometimes the source of these symptoms are obvious, like if you are prone to car sickness, you are pregnant, or you drank too much last night.

Other times we’re not sure why we are experiencing these symptoms, so we assume that it is a “stomach bug,” or maybe it is food poisoning. If someone else ate the same thing as you, you would differentiate these two reasons by checking in with them to see if they’re sick too.

What I often see in clinical practice is people with gut issues from digestive weakness or excess.

When the digestive system is weak, nausea and/or vomiting can manifest due to the lack of energy to complete the digestive process. There are many patterns that must be differentiated here in order to treat the person the best way, such as:

Deficient Spleen Qi

Damp-Cold Invading the Spleen

Deficient Spleen Yang

Deficient Stomach Qi

Deficient and Cold in the Stomach

Deficient Stomach Yin

When the digestive system is in a state of excess, nausea and/vomiting is sometimes a sign of accumulation:

Stomach Qi Rebelling Upward

Retention of Food in the Stomach

Damp Invading the Stomach

Damp-Heat Invading the Spleen

Fire or Phlegm Fire in the Stomach

Stagnation of Blood in the Stomach

By understanding why their stomach is upset helps pick the best treatment. Conventional medicine offers over the counter tools such as Kaopectate and Pepto-Bismol, whose active ingredient is bismuth subsalicylate, is an antacid medication. The problem with antacids is they suppress digestive function as a way to alleviate the symptom. One of the most common reasons a chronic disease manifests is due to the impairment of the digestive tract function. If you review the side effects you will see that it isn’t the best tool to help you with your nausea or vomiting.

So what is a good tool?

Below are two acute remedies available at Functional Alternative.

If you have chronic nausea and/or vomiting, please schedule a consult to determine your pattern above.

Acute nausea and/or vomiting from external pathogen

If the presentation is acute nausea and vomiting that is believed to be caused by something external (something contracted from the environment such as a pathogen), then Agastache Tummy Syrup might be your remedy, especially if the patient is a child since it is a yummy syrup. This Chinese herbal formula has a strong anti-vomiting action, and is especially effective when there is cold and dampness present together. When there is cold and dampness in the body, the patient wants warmth and doesn’t desire things coming in, such as food and drink. Below are indications for the use of Agastache Tummy Syrup:

Nausea

Vomiting

Abdominal distention

Abdominal pain

Lack of appetite

Cold avoidance

Diarrhea

Distending headache

Mild fever

Stomach flu (gastroenteritis)

Morning sickness

Lack of taste

Morning sickness

Dizziness

NOTE: For severe nausea and/or vomiting, take tiny sips under the tongue every 20 minutes until enough has been absorbed to allow for larger doses.

Nausea and/or vomiting from mild food poisoning or when you don’t know what else to take

Ease Digestion Formula, also called Curing Pills, Pill Curing, or Healthy Quiet Pills. It is a useful treatment of the stomach flu (gastroenteritis), vomiting and diarrhea, hangover, and other digestive complaints. This version is slightly modified from the traditional formula to give it a stronger action against mild food poisoning. The original formula also contained gluten, which has been removed in this formula. Indications:

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